When You Should Hyphenate, Open, or Close a Compound Word
And why getting compounds right matters
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4 min readAug 2, 2020
The concept of compound words is simple to understand, but using compound words correctly can sometimes prove challenging to writers. The trick is to understand how a term is being used — as a noun, a compound adjective that precedes the noun it modifies, a compound adjective that follows the noun it…